Mairead McGuinness

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mairead McGuinness
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 13, 1959(1959-06-13)
Age	65
Birthplace	Drogheda
Country	Ireland
Birth City	County Meath
Horoscope	Gemini

Mairead McGuinness Biography

Mairead McGuinness is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 13, 1959 in Drogheda, County Meath, Ireland. Mairead McGuinness, a Irish politician, was born 13 June 1959 and has been the First Vice President of the European Parliament since 2017. Since July 2004, she has been a Member (MEP) of the European Parliament from Ireland for the Midlands-North-West constituency. Fine Gael is her party.

McGuiness declared in April 2011 that she would run for President of Ireland. She also announced her intention to seek the nomination of Fine Gael for the presidential election 2011. Gay Mitchell defeated her for the nomination in July 2011.

At the 2014 European election, she was re-elected to the European Parliament for the new Midlands–North-West constituency.

Also in November 2016, McGuinness officially announced her candidacy for the office of President of the European Parliament. Instead, Italian MEP and former European Commissioner Antonio Tajani was elected as the EPP group’s nominee to replace incumbent president Martin Schulz; McGuiness received the second highest number of votes. Ahead of the 2019 European elections, she announced to run again for the post and was re-elected, exceeding the quota on the first count.

At the 2007 general election, she was a Fine Gael candidate in Louth but was not elected. She was reelected at the European election 2009 on the first count, winning the poll with 25.7% preference votes.

Mairead McGuinness Net Worth

Mairead McGuinness is one of the richest Politician from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mairead McGuinness 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

McGuinness, the first woman to graduate from University College Dublin’s Bachelor in Science degree in Agricultural Economics in 1980, was McGuinness. She earned a diploma in finance and accounting in 1984 and went on to a career as a journalist before she entered politics in 2004. As a researcher for The Late Late Show and as a presenter on RTE’s Ear to the Ground, and Celebrity Farm, she was also a journalist with the Irish Farmers Journal, and editor of the Irish Independent’s farm supplement.

McGuiness announced her intention to run for nomination for the European Parliament elections for Fine Gael in early 2004. Rumours suggested that McGuiness was considering a similar move to the Progressive Democrats. Avril Doyle was also selected for her to run at the February 2004 selection convention. It was expected that Fine Gael would win one of three East constituency seats. This decision proved controversial. Both women were elected by Fine Gael, which performed better than expected in the election.

In July 2014, McGuiness was elected Vice-President of the European Parliament; she secured an absolute majority to go through in the first round of voting by secret ballot. Under the leadership of President Martin Schulz, she oversees the parliament’s information policy, press and citizens relations. In addition, she serves as chairwoman of the Working Group on Information and Communication Policy and as co-chair of the Inter-Institutional Group on Communication.

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Facts & Trivia

Mairead Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Mairead McGuinness celebrates birthday on June 13 of every year.